Hale Ann Tufan is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Plant Breeding and Genetics at Cornell University. She is also a member of the CGIAR Gender and Agriculture Research Network’s Gender and Breeding working group. Here she tells us a little bit about how she started to work in this area, what she’s working on right now and some challenges and…
Gender issues are one focus of the CGIAR Research Program on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry (FTA), so the recent workshop “Disciplining Gender in Undisciplined Environments: Tensions in environment and development practices in the North and South” offered a welcome opportunity to reflect on gender research.
In this post, Nancy Johnson, one of the Principal Investigators of Gender, Agriculture, and Assets Project (GAAP1) and GAAP2, answers that question and summarizes the key findings from GAAP1 and their implications for agricultural research and developm…
If you give women a voice in the management of forests and fisheries, you get better outcomes for both people and nature.
“Women’s crops” is a familiar feature in writing about smallholder agriculture in Africa south of the Sahara. Although not always easy to define, they generally refer to crops grown by women for home consumption rather than for sale.
A new scientific report calls for a shift in interventions to tackle malnutrition in children in Rwanda under the age of two. Using the Women Empowerment in Agriculture Index, authors found that stunting is around half as likely – 46.6 percent – in families where women don’t control valuable “productive assets” – like mobile phones for information about and access…
Entitled “Collecting sex-disaggregated agricultural data through surveys,” this webinar was based on the research conducted by the CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM) led by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). Speakers provided definitions related to sex-disaggregated data and gender analysis, gave an overview of the role of gender in five broad research areas commonly addressed…
To be held in Nairobi from October 18-21, and organized by the CGIAR gender and Agriculture Research Network’s Gender and breeding working group, the workshop aims to identify the essential, “must have” ingredients of successful, gender- responsive breeding initiatives and to explore implications of the revolution in genomics for new opportunities and entry points in the breeding research cycle for…
To date, this blog has highlighted many of the challenges faced when collecting sex-disaggregated data through household surveys. In this post, we shift our focus to the complexities of assessing gender integration in policy documents.
The CGIAR Research Programs on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM) and on Roots, Tubers, and Bananas (RTB) have been collaborating on reinforcing the gender focus in research on value chains development and technology adoption for a few years now.
